Art Quotes
When you first start wearing a turban, probably the most common mistake is wrapping it too tight. You have to allow the head to breathe.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Your hearts are mighty, your skins are whole.William Shakespeare, "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 4 scene 1
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for competitors.Ralph Waldo Emerson
No book has yet been written in praise of a woman who let her husband and children starve or suffer while she invented even the most useful things, or wrote books, or expressed herself in art, or evolved philosophic systems.Anna Garlin Spence
The earth has grown old with its burden of care But at Christmas it always is young, The heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair And its soul full of music breaks the air, When the song of angels is sung.Phillips Brooks
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.Emile Zola
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - And to put its trust in life.Joseph Conrad
Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan - A Mount Rushmore of incompetence.David Steinberg
We must learn not to disassociate the airy flower from the earthy root, for the flower that is cut off from its root fades, and its seeds are barren, whereas the root, secure in mother earth, can produce flower after flower and bring their fruit to maturity.Kabbalah
This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us; to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves; to act in such a way that some part of us lives on.Oswald Spengle
To be conservative at 20 is heartless and to be a liberal at 60 is plain idiocy.Sir Winston Churchill
Saying we should keep the two - Party political system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life rafts.Eugene McCarthy
Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.Kahlil Gibran
The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape...Pablo Picasso
There are plenty of good five - Cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country needs is a good five - Cent nickel.Franklin P. Adams
Let your heart guide you. It whispers, so listen closely.The Land Before Time
You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also, that he shall not kneel to false gods, and, on the day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Just being happy helps other souls along Their burdens may be heavy and they not strong And your own sky will lighten, If other skies you brighten, by just being happy with a heart full of song.Ripley D. Saunders
America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.Woodrow Wilson
A friend of mine once sent me a postcard with a picture of the entire planet Earth taken from space. On the back it said, Wish you were here.Steven Wright
Number is the Word but is not utterance it is wave and light, though no one sees it it is rhythm and music, though no one hears it. Its variations are limitless and yet it is immutable. Each form of life is a particular reverberation of Number.Maurice Druon
It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.Horace Mann
Fill your mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart.Marianne Williamson
Do no dishonour to the earth least you dishonour the spirit of man.Henry Beston
If you sit down at set of sun And count the acts that you have done, And counting find One self - Denying deed, one word That eased the heart of him who heard One glance most kind That fell like sunshine where it went - Then you may count that day well spent.George Eliot
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.Helen Kelle
The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.Friedrich Nietzsche
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - They must be felt with the heart.Hellen Kelle
Every winter, When the great sun has turned his face away, The earth goes down into a vale of grief, And fasts, and weeps, and shrouds herself in sables, Leaving her wedding - Garlands to decay - - Then leaps in spring to his returning kisses.Charles Kingsley
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be.Abraham Maslow
He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be called intelligent indeed.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
If someone breaks your heart, forgive them. For they have helped you leard an important lesson on who you open your heart to.Unknown
Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth, And danced the skies on laughter - Silvered wings.John Gillespie Magee
An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.Carl Gustav Jung
It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If the mind be but well cultivated, and the heart well disposed, no one ever cares for the exterior.Anne Bronte, Agnes Grey
The wise only possess ideas the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Tears are the rinse water of an unhappy heart.Raynor Schein
